The researchers at Tuskegee University, Alabama, reported their work in the Journal of Nanophotonics, confirming that they developed a photonic crystal light sail designed to address these limitations ...

UB chemist Jason Benedict and his team spent years developing photoswitchable crystals. Every crystal’s shape is a mirror of the internal arrangement of their molecules, but the molecules in ...

The best candidate for next-generation magnetic devices—technology that can power, store, sense or transport information—may be, counterintuitively, antiferromagnets. Today, the most widely used ...

Researchers from Tuskegee University, Alabama, have developed a new photonic crystal (a kind of ...

Most space missions rely on chemical rockets for propulsion. Rockets must carry fuel, which increases spacecraft mass and limits their speed and travel distance. For decades, researchers have explored ...

Scientists have taken the first step toward developing antiferromagnetic technology. They detected a liquid-crystal phase that may change the game for spintronic devices.

The best candidate for next-generation magnetic devices -- technology that can power, store, sense or transport information - ...

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a 4D-STEM workflow that can isolate and solve atomic structures from individual nanocrystals buried inside dense, tangled clusters, ...

As airlines navigate intense global capacity demands, two of the most prominent twin-engine jets in the skies, the Airbus ...

Physicists hunting for new superconductors often look for a very specific shape hidden in ...

The types of glass that we encounter in everyday life, such as window glass or smartphone screens, are disordered solids. This means that they consist of particles locked in place, like those in ...

Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision could actually see.